Following Sri Lanka Cricket's policy of having different managers
for tours, Nishantha Ranatunga, who went to Canada
and Zimbabwe
was replaced.On 4 December it was
announced that Mr.Jayantha Paranathala would be Manager and Guy de Alwis the Interim
Committee Member on tour.

•Dilshan's
scored a century in each innings (162 and 143) in the second Test at Chittagong

•He then
took 4 for 10 to send Bangladesh
crashing to the fifth largest defeat in Test history.

Tour Summary

F

W

L

D

Aban

Test Matches

2

2

0

0

-

Other first-class matches

0

-

-

-

-

ϯ Minor
matches

1

0

0

1

-

§ One-day
internationals

3

2

1

0

-

ÅT20 internationals

0

-

-

-

-

All Matches

6

4

1

1

-

FFixturesWWonL LostD DrawnT TiedCanc CancelledAbanabandoned

Return to Sri Lanka

Dhaka QKarachi

LahoreQColombo

At the end of the Test series in Bangladesh
the following eight Test squad players returned to Sri Lanka on 10 January: Dilshan, Prasad, Prasanna Jayawardena, Vaas,
Vandort, Warnapura, Samaraweera and Herath.

After
completing their tri-series in Bangladesh,
Sri Lanka's victorious one-day
side flew directly from Dhaka to Pakistan
on Saturday 17 January touching down at Quaid-e-Azam
Airport, Karachi, next day. This tour may be
regarded as the first leg of the Test tour to Pakistan 2008-09.

Dilshan was called back into the side and went to Pakistan
in preference to Dilhara Fernando.

§ Karachi

Pakistan (1st ODI)

Lost 8 w

§ Karachi

Pakistan (2nd ODI)

Won 129 r

§ Lahore

Pakistan (3rd ODI)

Won 234 r

Ending a successful three-match
ODI series, the team then rushed back to Sri Lanka (arriving in Colombo from
Lahore on Sunday 25th January 2009) to play five ODI's and a T20 game against
India at home before returning to Pakistan in February for a further international
series of two Test matches.